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Re: The Games Hangout Thread

So....... PS4 is definitely not aiming for significant hardware improvements? DOn't get me wrong, I already suggested that there was hardly any need for more powerful hardware just yet however the idea that they don't aim for hardware improvement is kinda weird to me. What exactly do they mean by "social gaming"? Isn't that online multiplayer? While that is cool and all I have never been much of a fan of it anyways. I prefer to play with people in the room for the part part if I have to multiplay. As for changes in how the player interacts with the machine, I take it they mean better motion gaming for the most part. I guess they could go for something like a tablet controller however it is still to early to tell if people even like that (I haven't had a chance to try it myself). I guess they could have finally gotten to actual brainstorming and figured out something cool as far as gameplay is concerned. Perhaps an even better version of the move achieved by a far deeper integration with the system? I guess they could keep the original move and add components to the new PS4 which make it work even better than in the PS3.... Not sure how that would work.

Re: The Games Hangout Thread

Originally Posted by riki

That's just the code name just like Sony's is Orbis. ^^

Well, I hope it is anyway

Or Nintendo's "Dolphin" for the Wii U. That has to be up there with the worst code names ever. Game companies have no sense of poetry. Just once I want one of these new consoles to be codenamed "The Cobra".

Re: The Games Hangout Thread

The rumored next-gen XBox supposedly requires always-on internet and blocks used games. New games will have activation codes, which could only be used by initial users.

I hope that isn't true since a lot of gamers wouldn't be happy with that.

I don't think I'll be getting an XBox. Besides Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey there weren't that many reasons for me to buy an XBox 360, plus I can't even get mine to work anymore (and this seems to happen with a lot of Xboxes). So yeah, I think I'll pass. No offense Microsoft, I enjoyed the 360 a lot, but this supposed new policy sounds pretty messed up. That, and Sony tends to have more exclusives.